Global Health Humanities in transition

This special issue on the Global Health Humanities originally was conceptualised before the COVID-19 pandemic began, and then grew into fruition during the height of a global health crisis. As co-editors, we agreed that the advent of the pandemic necessitated a critical re-evaluation of the basic tenets of Global Health Humanities as a developing field. The project has been shaped during a moment in which daily news and information around issues of health, contagion and global interconnectedness have asked us to shift and rethink the very questions that need to be posed. Therefore, the issue not only seeks to represent the diverse disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches of the Global Health Humanities, but also to model scholarship during a time of transition. We revised cluster topics midstream to accommodate a new group of essays on COVID-19. Even within essays from different thematic clusters, authors who mentioned COVID-19 as a...
Source: Medical Humanities - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research